With stiff competition from the leaders of Pfizer, Dimension Therapeutics and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Christi Shaw, the U.S. Country Head, President of Novartis emerged to win the lifetime achievement award at eyeforpharma Philadelphia 2016.

Dennis Freire, Associate Director- Financial Disclosure, Pfizer won the Customer Award for a stand-out contribution to one of the biggest existential challenges facing pharma: the spiralling costs of clinical research.

Although it is well established that Pharma there are many areas where the industry would gain from better coordination and sharing of resources, these conversations have historically been quagmired by political difference and corporation bureaucracy.

First IBM Watson’s ground-breaking work in discovering new candidates for R&D and now Teva Pharmaceuticals AI solution for patient support. Is this the beginning of a wave of AI disruption throughout pharma?

Barcelona March 2016: As the pharmaceutical industry continues to focus its business model toward greater patient centricity, the recent eyeforpharma Conference (in Barcelona) provided a global platform for industry thought leaders to share their vision for a better way of satisfying their patient’s needs.